WEBVTT Big news today out of Southeast Iowa - where a manufacturing company and the state's largest energy provider announced a record breaking deal ... Mark Tauscheck reports from Lee County. This 650 thousand square foot Siemans plant near Fort Madison has been churning out These giant blades for wind turbines since 2007 - each weighs about 12 tons and for the most part are hand-made. 14:54-"our blades are constructed by a sandwich type construction - consists of many layers of fiberglassour core material in this case is balsam wood" Siemans has made 9000 blades in their 7 years of existence - and today announced They will make over 13 hundred more blades for 448 new turbines for MidAmerican energy over the next two years 47:08-"wind energy has all the environmental beniefits - no carbon, no water use, no pollution, AND it's the least expensive form out there in iowa." MidAmerican says This project alone will produce enough energy to power 317 thousand Iowa householdsand by the end of 2015 39 percent of MidAmerican's energy capacity Will be in wind 56:42-"and depending on how the wind blows, we've had some days or hours when all of Our energy is supplied by wind." The new turbines will go in five different locations around the state - it took agreements With over 700 landowners to get the deal doneand at 1.9 billin dollars is the largest Economic development project in Iowa history. 54:57- all blades made right here in ft. Madison - securing 500 jobs, 1000 jobs in constructionso big deal also provides significant income for the farmers where turbines are going to be located."